Copying Between Application

Copying Between Application

Now you can insert the logo of your organization (the palm tree) into your WordPad document. To do this, you need to copy the graphic from Paint and insert it into the WordPad document. You can select an item from an open document and copy it to another location in the same or another document.

You can copy the entire picture or any part of the drawing by selecting an area. Since the drawing occupies almost the entire space, you may select the entire drawing area. A dotted line identifies the selected area, in this case the entire picture. Contents of the selected area are copied to the Clipboard.

Embedding an Object: You are now ready to insert the picture into the WordPad document. You would like the palm tree picture that is stored in the Clipboard to be centered at the top of the document.

The insertion point appears at the center of the blank line. This is because the “Center” feature was in effect for the line the insertion point was on when the two new lines were created. Now you are positioned in the document where you want the picture inserted.

An object can be inserted into another document by pasting, linking or embedding it. The “Paste” and “Paste Special” commands on the “Edit” menu are used to insert a copy from the Clipboard into a document. You will embed the palm tree object in the document. Select “Edit → Paste”.

The graphic of the palm tree that was stored in the Clipboard is pasted into the document. It is surrounded by a box and eight solid squares called “handles”. These indicate the object is selected and can be manipulated. You can adjust the size of any selected object by dragging the handles in the same manner as sizing windows.

Editing an Embedded Object: After looking at the inserted graphic, you may decide you want to add some text inside the graphic. To edit an embedded object, you can open the object server by double-clicking on it. This allows you to edit the embedded graphic from within WordPad.

Paint, the server application is opened within WordPad, and the graphic appears in its own editing window. Notice that there is still only one Paint application button in the taskbar. This indicates that the Paint program has not been opened a second time in its own application window. Also notice that the title bar still displays "WordPad" and if you scroll down, the text of your document is still displayed.

You now have access to the Paint menu and toolbar so you can edit the object while you are still in the WordPad document. The Text tool is used to add text to a Paint object. You may want to add the company name to the grass area of the graphic. When adding text, you first create a box, called a text frame and then type the text inside it. If you do not like how your text box looks, you can always use “Edit → Undo” from the menu and try it again.

The text frame displays an insertion point, and the “Fonts” window is displayed. It shows the default type style and size that will be used when you type the text entry. You may want to increase the font size to 14 point. Before typing the text, you can also choose a color for the text. The color that is applied to the text is the foreground color. To make the background the same as the grass, you make the text frame transparent so that the background is visible.

You may verify that the original file created using Paint, containing the palm tree, has not changed. Since no changes were made to the file, you are not prompted to save the file before it is closed. WordPad is displayed again, because it was the last-used application.